Evidence‐Based Medicine or Cookbook Medicine? Addressing Concerns over the Standardization of Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12911779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loes Knaapen (0000-0003-3041-4290, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 823-836 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12184 |
| OpenAlex | W1601403645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 69 |
Evidence‐based medicine (EBM), which advocates clinical decisions are based on evidence from medical research, has become an important ideal pursued in contemporary medicine. EBM relies on two key principles: the evidence hierarchy and clinical practice guidelines. Both principles have been fiercely criticized, and critics often invoke the term ‘Cookbook medicine’ to stress the dangers and limitations of EBM. This article reviews diverse critical literature on EBM by drawing on the newly proposed subfield of “Sociology of Standards.” It reframes the manifold critiques on EBM as concerns over the harm that standardization can bring about and demonstrates how empirical sociological studies have contributed to a better understanding of EBM's justificatory basis and regulatory impact. First, it discusses the ‘politics of Evidence’ inherent in EBM's epistemological basis, secondly, explores the actual ‘evidence‐base’ of its tools in practice, and third, addresses sociological debates on EBM's regulatory impact. In the concluding section, I argue that a ‘Sociology of Standards’ opens up new research avenues by allowing scholars to challenge – or at least empirically investigate – a host of dichotomies. By doing so, the role of the patient in EBM can be reframed to allow for more productive empirical investigations
Engineering ethics · Political science · Sociology · Standardization · Engineering · Ethics in Clinical Research · Health Policy Implementation Science · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law
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Ethics in action
Don't Take It Personally
Making work flow
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Drogas fluidas
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Rethinking Medical Knowledge in the Post‐Pandemic Era
Making epistemic goods compatible
Three Conceptual Models of Patient and Public Involvement in Standard-setting
Global Diversification in Medicine Regulation
Alter-Standardizing Clinical Trials
Standardising care of the dying
Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications
Dual Autonomies, Divergent Approaches
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries
Decisions about Knowledge in Medical Practice
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab
Creating an (ethical) epistemic space for the normalization of clinical and "real food" oral immunotherapy for food allergy
Global Trials, Local Bodies
Questions regarding 'epistemic injustice' in knowledge-intensive policymaking
Expert or experiential knowledge? How knowledge informs situated action in childcare practices
Clinical practice guidelines in courts' representation of medical evidence and testimony
The reproduction of knowledge hierarchies in transgender medicine
Changing order
Inclusion
Biomedical Platforms
Standards
Evidence-Based Medicine
Science Observed
Sorting Things Out
Evidence‐based medicine in practice
An empirical study of patient participation in guideline development
Are RCTs the Gold Standard
Professionalism, Indeterminacy and the EBM Project
The biomedical standardization of premenstrual syndrome
Preventing Implementation
Being ‘evidence-based’ in the absence of evidence
What’s Behind a Guideline
Extending the rails
Biomedical Conventions and Regulatory Objectivity
Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective
Standardization in Action
Co‐optation, Commodification and the Medical Model
The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom
Standardization across Non-standard Domains
Identifying Effectiveness in ''The Old Old
Health Care Standards and the Politics of Singularities
Rebirthing the Clinic
Problems and promises of the protocol
Regulatory objectivity and the generation and management of evidence in medicine
Reactivity and reactions to regulatory transparency in medicine, psychotherapy and counselling
Pragmatic evidence and textual arrangements
Clinical autonomy, individual and collective
The problem of evidence-based medicine
Diversity in clinical guidelines
Accounting for EBM
On evidence and evidence-based medicine
The social and cultural shaping of medical evidence
Resisting Evidence
Evidence-Based Medicine
Are new forms of professionalism emerging in medicine? The case of the implementation of Nice guidelines
Quand les normes de pratiques deviennent une ressource pour les médecins
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Trussed in Evidence? Ambiguities at the Interface between Clinical Evidence and Clinical Practice
A World of Standards but not a Standard World
The Changing Nature of Professional Control
Expansion and uncertainty
Guidelines, professionals and the production of objectivity
Gino's lesson on humanity
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |